Articles by Cholo Brooks

About Cholo Brooks

Joel Cholo Brooks is a Liberian journalist who previously worked for several international news outlets including the BBC African Service. He is the CEO of the Global News Network which publishes two local weeklies, The Star and The GNN-Liberia Newspapers. He is a member of the Press Union Of Liberia (PUL) since 1986, and several other international organizations of journalists, and is currently contributing to the South Africa Broadcasting Corporation as Liberia Correspondent.

The leadership of the Vanguard Student Unification Party at the state owned University of Liberia has publicly condemned the Liberian Government for its failure to catering to the needs of the Liberian people over the […]

{By Yves Daccord, ICRC} – Roselyn was a Liberian midwife who throughout her 30-year career helped not only thousands of pregnant women in her hometown of Monrovia, but also – during the darkest days of […]

{By EJ Hogendoorn | @ejhogendoorn} – Today the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has formally ended. At its height in mid-2014, there were concerns social order in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone could collapse. International […]

Former Mexican president, Vicente Fox, speaks with Al Jazeera English’s Mehdi Hasan and escalates his attacks on Donald Trump: States that Donald Trump is “absolutely” a racist and that his “discriminatory speech is creating violence […]

Cyril Allen’s Jr. early Saturday morning met his untimely demise when the Nissan Pathfinder (plate A61644) struck a heavy-duty Renault truck, which was parked on the main road. The truck, with plate C50363, had developed […]

A female reporter was among those tear gassed during protests in Istanbul, Turkey. The demonstrations were against the government’s move to take control of Zaman, the largest newspaper in the country. Around 2000 people gathered […]